The Board has remanded the case for further development and readjudication due to issues related to TMJ, including functional loss during flare-ups and ankylosis. The Veteran's facial pain is also on appeal.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners did not provide a clear opinion regarding the functional impact of the Veteran's TMJ symptoms during flare-ups or after repeated use over time.
- Claimed conditions
- Facial Pain, Temporomandibular articulation (TMJ)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 6, 2023
- Citation
- 23021274
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's TMJ disability ratings are being remanded for further development and adjudication due to the need for an adequate VA examination, considering the ameliorative effects of medication on symptoms.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected deviated nasal septum is productive of sinusitis-like symptoms, and a separate 10 percent rating for facial pain, headaches, nose bleeds, and burning in the nose associated with this condition has been granted.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, a skin disability other than pseudofolliculitis barbae, and a compensable initial rating for pseudofolliculitis barbae. The Veteran's TMJ is currently rated as 30 percent disabling effective March 30, 2017.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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